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The Quality Indicators are a vital part of reporting for all residential aged care providers, requiring constant record keeping and quarterly reporting to the Department of Health and Aged Care. It is important for providers to get this reporting right because it assists in informing the newly released star ratings, which show the quality of care your facility offers.
Despite the fact that it’s predicted around two-thirds of people living in aged care in Australia have dementia, and it was a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety for aged care workers to have dementia training, aged care training currently does not involve a compulsory dementia education element.
Small-town Pyramid Hill in Victoria responded to its aged care facility closing down by rising up. Advocates and experts say this has lessons for how the Federal government should approached aged care management and reform.
Aged care runs the risk of being dictated by regulation yet one Melbourne provider has broken the shackles to create a diversified care model that is both ambitious and a proven success.
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